"Our big thing that we're learning here today is how we can get the information out," Capt. Steve Conn said. "We're trying to funnel this information into one local specific message, and in this situation we're using the social media with Twitter."

Officials will now look at the exercise and see what worked and what didn't.

"We'll gather all the information, what we need to do to correct our plan. We've made our plan, now we need to see if it works," coordinator John Horton said.